Where gender and corpora meet: new insights into discourse analysis
This book contains an original collection of contributions that deal with the use of a methodology based on, driven, or assisted by corpora to analyse language from a gender perspective. Specialist software is also used to answer the research questions addressed in every chapter. The papers selected examine English or Spanish texts and focus on the employment of gender-related words in several types of discourse (e.g., adventure tourism promotion, the Humanities, literature, legal texts, or social media). The authors cover these topics from different approaches to identify new features on how language use portrays the female and the male genders. Overall, this volume shows the power of the so-called Corpus Linguistics to understand the connection between language and gender. Therefore, this is a sample of the intersection of these three elements, forming the pivot of the monograph and offering, at the same time, analysis techniques that can be replicated.
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Moving Identities: Constructing the Self and the Other in Travel Writing
Moving Identities’: The title of this volume refers to the many ways in which travel writing relates the concepts of travel and identity. Its most important meanings are (1) the reflexive-dynamic meaning, (2) the transitive-dynamic meaning, and (3) the paradoxical-static meaning.
All three denote different ways of linking the identities of self and Other with the movement of the journey and of staging them textually, i.e. not simply representing them as if they also existed independently and outside of the texts but presenting and performing them by means of their rhetoric. The reflexive-dynamic and the transitive-dynamic meanings coincide in that they exclude, in principle, the essentialist idea of an unchanging identity as sameness over time and/or across persons. The paradoxical-static meaning, on the other hand, corresponds to the fact that essentialist positions are nevertheless asserted in some of the analysed travelogues.
This volume includes contributions on travel writing in English, French, German, Polish and Spanish from the 18th to the 21st century.
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